{"id":7277,"date":"2026-03-09T10:37:40","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T09:37:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pillartoday.ng\/?p=7277"},"modified":"2026-03-09T10:37:40","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T09:37:40","slug":"annl-akpabio-united-secures-home-victory-through-emmanuels-lone-goal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"pillartoday.com.ng\/?p=7277","title":{"rendered":"ANNL: Akpabio United Secures Home Victory Through Emmanuel&#8217;s Lone Goal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By<strong> Akanimo Kufre<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Akpabio United FC secured a 1-0 victory over Ekiti United FC at the Uyo Township Stadium on Sunday, courtesy of Emmanuel Joseph&#8217;s decisive goal.<\/p>\n<p>The winning team&#8217;s striker scored from a rebound in the second half after Ekiti United&#8217;s goalkeeper punched out a potent free kick. Emmanuel Joseph&#8217;s impressive performance earned him the Man of the Match accolade.<\/p>\n<p>Following the win, Emmanuel Joseph attributed his success to God and expressed his commitment to scoring more goals to aid the team&#8217;s progress.<\/p>\n<p>Akpabio United FC&#8217;s Coach, Kingsley Lawrence, hailed the victory as crucial and promised to lead his team to a positive result in their upcoming match against Abakaliki FC.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was not an easy match, but the three points are vital. We will approach our next game with Abakaliki with a winning strategy and prepare for a favorable outcome.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Ekiti United FC&#8217;s Coach, Bolarinwa Idris, commended the referee for a fair game and congratulated Akpabio United FC on their win.<\/p>\n<p>Coach Idris also highlighted the challenges of lacking goal scorers in the Nigerian football league, stating, &#8220;We need to enhance our grassroots football and the Nigeria League One, (NLO), as this is where we can develop prolific goal scorers.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Akanimo Kufre Akpabio United FC secured a 1-0 victory over Ekiti United FC at the Uyo Township Stadium on Sunday, courtesy of Emmanuel Joseph&#8217;s decisive goal. The winning team&#8217;s striker scored from a rebound in the second half after Ekiti United&#8217;s goalkeeper punched out a potent free kick. Emmanuel Joseph&#8217;s impressive performance earned him [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":7278,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"pillartoday.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"pillartoday.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"pillartoday.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"pillartoday.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"pillartoday.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"pillartoday.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7277\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"pillartoday.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"pillartoday.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"pillartoday.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"pillartoday.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}